종전 후 중국지역 ‘일본군 위안부’의 행적과 미귀환

Life Stories and No Repatriation of the ‘Military Sexual Slavery’ by Japan after the end of World War II

The purpose of this paper is to examine the life stories of the korean ‘military sexual slavery’ who had been sent to China during the Japanese colonial period and could not return home after World War II. Main points are summarized as following: Japan set the so-called ‘military consolation camp’ in all its occupied countries and forced to mobilize korean women for its purpose. More of 60% of the korean ‘military sexual slavery’ were sent to all over China, from Hong Kong to Inner Mongolia. The women who were mobilized by Japanese military were estimated at about 140,000 to 200,000, 80% of them were korean. Most of them could not return home after the war because of massacre, STDs, sickness, suicide or opium intoxication. It seems reasonable that only about 1/4 to 1/10 of them were repatriated. After the war, Japan pulled the troop out of the front only with its countrymen, kept its defeat secret and left korean ‘military sexual slavery’ on the battlefield. Therefore, they had to return home by their own efforts in most miserable ways. The remained korean women felled into difficult situation. Part of them sought shelter from the marriage with Chinese men but could not escape suffering: problems of communication, several aftereffects of the lives as ‘sexual slavery’ such as venereal diseases and non-pregnancy, contempt and ill-treatment from neighborhood prevented them from adapting themselves to surroundings. The fatal results were suicide, mental disease and so on.